American - Cartoonist | March 24, 1911 - December 18, 2006
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
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Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
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